NEFSC has summer employment opportunities available during the summer of 2008 at our laboratories located in Woods Hole, MA; Milford, CT; Highlands, NJ and Orono, ME.
NEFSC Ref. Doc. 07-11
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The 45th SAW/SARC was held June 4-9 in Woods Hole.
The Northeast Regional Stock
Assessment Workshop or SAW is a formal scientific peer-review
process for evaluating and presenting stock assessment results
to managers.
Online Fish Tag Reporting
Fishermen are now able to report recaptured tags online. The NEFSC currently
has 4 ongoing fish tagging programs:
Apex Predator Tagging Program
Cooperative Black Sea Bass Tagging Project
Cooperative Scup Tagging Program
Cooperative Yellowtail Flounder Tagging Project
Recaptured tags can be reported toll-free over the phone (877) 826-2612 or
filling in basic information presented on our Online Fish Tag Reporting webpage.
The
Sociocultural and Economic Survey Initiative In late
1998, Congress appropriated five million dollars to NOAA to provide
emergency disaster assistance to persons or entities in the Northeast
multispecies fishery who incurred losses from a commercial fishery
failure due to declining stocks of groundfish. In return for receiving
compensation, participants agreed to either make their vessel
available for cooperative research projects, and/or to respond
to this survey.
Proposed Bottom Trawl Design Specifications for the proposed NEFSC Research Survey bottom
trawl. This was designed for the new research vessel
FSV Henry B. Bigelow which is currently under construction. Comments are requested.
Senator Mikulski toured Woods Hole in Aug. This is the presentation that she was shown here at the NEFSC. It briefly describes who we are, how we started and what we do.
Nice flash animation showing acoustic tagged salmon smolt leaving a river and entering the Gulf of Maine. The color changes show the tidal flow up and down the river.
Cooperative
Yellowtail Tagging Project
involves fishermen, Mass. Division of Marine Fisheries, School of Marine Science and Technology and Rhode Island Fish and Wildlife, to tag yellowtail to better understand their movements, mortality and ageing
The Study Fleet Program
is designed to collect high resolution, self-reported data
on fishing effort, catch, and biological observations from a subset of
commercial vessels through an electronic logbook application.
Cooperative
Black Sea Bass Tagging Project
was designed to
examine the population size, exploitation rate and seasonal movements
of the northern Atlantic coast black sea bass, Centropristis
striata.
Right Whale Aerial Surveys
The Western North Atlantic Right Whale population has been holding steady at
approximately 300 individuals, making it one of the most critically endangered of the great whales. See how aerial surveys are helping protect them.
Right
Whale Sighting Advisory System - The System provides real-time
right whale sighting information to the commercial shipping industry
and other marine traffic from air and ship surveys conducted by
several agencies and organizations and from verified opportunistic
sightings received primarily in the July - December period.